Rendering

Choose fragment or document rendering deliberately and render each completed view at the application boundary.

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Overview

Choose fragment or document rendering deliberately and render each completed view at the application boundary.

Fragments

Render.toString serializes exactly the supplied element and does not prepend a doctype.

let fragment =
    div { _class "notice"; "Saved" }
    |> Render.toString
// <div class="notice">Saved</div>

Documents

Render.toHtmlDocString prepends <!DOCTYPE html> and is intended for a complete HTML document.

let responseBody =
    html {
        _lang "en"
        head { title "Account" }
        body { main { h1 { "Account" } } }
    }
    |> Render.toHtmlDocString

Application boundaries

FSharp.ViewEngine has no web-framework dependency. Pass the resulting string to your framework's normal HTML response API. See the Giraffe integration for a complete server example.